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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Benchmarking ...
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Bostjan Skufca wrote:
> Are you talking about general server benchmarks, HTTP server benchmarks or
> PHP-only specific benchmarks (make test?)?

General full stack testing ... OS agnostic so we can compare OS's

The statement has been made that 32bit PHP is faster than 64bit on windows, and 
that is what I am currently trying to benchmark.

There is 'ab' for testing the Apache installation, and that is giving me a good 
10% faster performance for the 64bit VC9 build of Apache 2.2.21 over the 32bit 
one. php_benchmark seems a little light nowadays since it's difficult to compare 
performance when it only takes around 34mS to run, I've scaled it to take 10 
times longer so I can now actually see a difference, but I'm not seeing a 
recordable difference between setups.

I need to test the database connection as well, and an ADOdb test set will also 
test PHP performance, but the current benchmark again is only taking 0.1 seconds 
to complete, so a more substantial one is needed.

> On 19 October 2011 13:35, Lester Caine<lester@lsces.co.uk>  wrote:
>
>> OK ... I've pulled out all the old benchmarking stuff, but being several
>> years old, they seem to be a little 'light' in what they are doing. I'm
>> getting 34mS test times on things that were probably a second or more when I
>> first used them.
>>
>> I've got two Linux machines running public accessible websites, and three
>> Windows boxes which I can test internally, with various versions of 32 and
>> 64 bit windows so I want a benchmark that will do a reasonable job of
>> testing PHP5.3+ installations and which other people can compare against.
>>
>> So what are people currently using for benchmarking performance?

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